How should I score a student’s response if the student has an articulation problem or mispronounces a word but always pronounces the word that same way in his/her own speech?
The examiner would not count as errors any mispronunciations that he/she knows are due to difficulties with articulation or are related to dialectical differences (i.e., variations in pronunciation that conform to local language norms). However, in order to make such a decision, the examiner would need to have knowledge of the student’s speech outside of the testing situation or have knowledge of local dialect. Consequently, when the examiner is uncertain, a more conservative approach of marking the item as incorrect is recommended.
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